informative. I have armed myself with several books on North American edible
plants and tasted my first last night. I picked about a half cup of stinging
nettles tops and simmered them for about 12 minutes. Then added butter and
salt and pepper. Was bit nervous about putting this stinging plant in my
mouth, but did it anyway. Am I glad I did. Tastes like very hearty spinach.
Ate all of it. Then I drank the tea that was left over. Was damn good. Am
going to pick a bunch, and freeze some and dry some before it goes to
flower, so I can have tea and veggies.
It's a bit odd to be working with and washing a plant in your kitchen with
gloves on and then cooking and eating it.
Next it's burdock and dandelions (but have to get them both from the back of
the property as we are herbiciding our lawn -- no flames please about
spraying -- we've got a lot of lawn and no time to weed it -- we did try it
last year and removed buckets of weeds, with no visible difference this
year.)
Also identified Winter Cress, but this plant can only be used in the early
early spring before it flowers.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Stanley
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:33 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Plant Question
Deanna, I have those everywhere....I know about the digging them up, they've
got a seriously long taproot.
-----Original Message-----
From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:22 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Plant Question
I haven't tried them, but if you're interested in eating wild plants, and
you have nettles, you probably have burdock, too. The root of young plants
is used in a lot of Asian cooking, and is supposed to be quite good. (Though
digging up burdock roots can be a pita.)
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Burdock.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Stanley"
> I got stung by stinging nettles this weekend, which hurt but wasnt too
bad.
> Doing research on this plant on the web and found out that it is edible.
> Anyone ever eat this? They say it is cooked like spinach and and is very
> good for you. I am interested in trying this, but am scared about
poisoning
> myself, if it is not stinging nettles. I know there are alot of plants in
> the wild that act similar to others, and look similar to others but are
> truly different in nature and effects. I have alot of land, and it would
be
> a shame to ignore this potential resource for me and my family. I guess
the
> best thing to do would be to get a well illustrated book of my areas
edible
> plants and go from there.
>
>
> http://www.rain-tree.com/nettles.htm
<http://www.rain-tree.com/nettles.htm>
>
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